Arcades in Reno

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Reno, Nevada has 4 mapped right now. That's 4 arcades mapped around Reno. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. Off-peak hours mean shorter waits on the good machines and your pick of the racing seats.

This guide covers every arcade we could verify in and around Reno (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Circus Circus Arcade and Press Start, plus Chuck E. Cheese. If an arcade's missing from Reno's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Reno arcade lineup

4 in Reno:

What the map tells us about arcades in Reno

None of the 4 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Arcades tend toward long evening hours; call ahead if you're making a special trip.

The Reno arcade run

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Circus Circus Arcade, Press Start, Chuck E. Cheese, and KidzLand. That's 4 stops on the Reno arcade run.

Arcade tips for Reno

Hitting the arcades in Reno? Play smarter:

• Eat before the big session at Circus Circus Arcade. Arcade food is priced for captives. Eat properly beforehand and save the budget for games.
• Racing games: sit properly at Press Start. Feet on the pedals, hands at nine and three. The cabinet is a simulator if you treat it like one.
• Check age policies. Some arcades are all-ages by day and 19+ at night, especially the bar-arcade hybrids. Check before bringing kids.
• Respect the machine queue. One credit, then rotate on busy machines. Camping a popular cabinet on a Saturday night is poor form.

Good to know

We searched about 25 km around Reno — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new arcade in Reno can take a while to appear. The 4 above are only as current as the community map. A arcade that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list machine lineups — they change too often. What we list is the where: real venues, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 4 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.